Hay-stacker.



No. 830,198. PATBNTBD SEPT. 4, 1906. J. H. BAUMAN.

HAY STAGKER. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 6. 1905.-

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFTOE.

HAY-STACKER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 4, 1906.

Application tiled January 6, 1905. Serial No. 239,951.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. BAUMAN, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Concord, in the county of Dixon and State of Nebraska,have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Hay-Stackers, aswill be described more fully hereinafter and finally pointed out in theclaim.

In the accompanying drawings I have shown in Figure 1 an elevation of ahay-st acker embodyingl my invention with portions removed, while Fig. 2shows an end View of my stacker.

In carrying out the aim of my invention I use two runners A, of anysuitable material, which are connected by means of the crosssills toform a suitable portable base. The runners A at each end are providedwith the links 19, so that suitable draft-animals may be readily hitchedto my hay-stacker.

Supported centrally upon the base (l, secured to the cross-sills a, is abase-cone 3, suitably secured upon which rests the tubulous standard 1of any suitable length and diameter and preferably of iron, which isprovided below with the bearing 2, as shown in Fig. 1. Extending upwardfrom the cross-sills a are the supporting-bars B, which above aresecured to a collar O, suitably secured to these standards, andextending through this collar is the tubulous standard 1, as shown moreclearly in Fig. 1. This tubulous standard is 'further provided witha-bearing-shoulder 4, working upon the collar C, as shown. Above thistubulous standard is slotted so that the crane b is suitably held withinthe slot of this standard, being secured by means of the pins 7, asshown in Fig. 1. The crane b is further secured by means of thesupporting-bars 8 and 9, secured by the bolts 6', 7, and 8@ as shown.Below this crane the tubulous standard is perforated, so that thehoistingcable c will readily pass through the standard, and in order tosupport this cable I provide the sheave 5, secured to the pin 6, asshown in dotted outlines in Fig. 1. Near the forward end I provide thecrane with the hook 11 and near the rear end with the hook 10. Securedto the hook 11 by means of the loop 13 is the block 15, over which thehoistingcable passes, while secured to the hook 10 by means of the loop12 is the second block 14, over which the hoisting-cable also extends.Secured to the central cross-sill c is a hook 17, as shown in Fig. 2,provided with the block 1S, through which the hoistingcable alsoextends. At the forward end this hoisting-cable is provided with thering 16, to which is secured an ordinary hay-fork E.

Now by this arrangement the tubulous stand-` ard is revolubly supported,so that the same may be freely turned. Now vin using this implement inmaking a stack the tubulous standard is so placed that the crane b willstand at right angles to a plane passing through the sheave 18, and theaxes of the tubulous standard, as is shown in Fig. 1, for instance. Thefork E, having received its load, suitable draft animal would be securedto the hoisting-cable c, and as these advance the freely-moving tubulousstandard c would be swung around, so that the .two sheaves 14 and 1Swould come in alinement, resulting in the stack being made at a pointninety degrees from the point where the load is received. Usually whenthe draft animals are started they do two things, they raise the load aswell as swing around the tubulous standard. It is of course understoodthat the load could be placed at a point at any angle to the point wherethe load is received.

The device is neat and simple of construction and readily operated. Whentransported, the implement is carried upon the runners A, while in beingshipped the tubulous standard is removed from the collar C, the crane bbeing unshipped and the connecting-bars S and 9 removed. A simple truckcan be readily placed below the runners A.

These stackers may be made of various sizes.

Having thus described my said invention, what I claim as new, and desireto secure by United States Letters Patent, isu

In a device of the character described, the combination with tworunners, of cross-sills connecting said runners, a cone secured to oneof said sills', supporting-bars extending upward from said sills, acollar, said supporting-bars at their upper ends being secured to saidcollar, a tubular standard extending through said collar and having itslower end resting upon said cone, a bearing- IOO shoulder secured tosaid standard, said shoulthrough said standard perforation, all arderresting upon said collar, the upper end of ranged as set forth. 1o saidstandard being slotted, a Crane held In testimony whereof I affix mysignature Within said slot, supporting-bars extending in presence of tWoWitnesses.

from said crane and being secured to said JOHN H. BAUMAN. standard, saidstandard being perforatedwv Witnesses: pulleys secured to each end ofsaid crane, and R. E. STEWART,

a hostng-eab1e passing over said pulleys and T. R. MACKEY.

